It’s so cold even the SHARKS are freezing to death

Two thresher sharks were found washed up along Massachusetts’s Cape Cod Bay after being ‘stranded due to cold shock’ amid plunging temperatures in the northern United States this week.

A passerby walking along the bay early Wednesday came across a shocking sight and snapped some photos.

James Mullin initially saw one lifeless shark and immediately contacted the Center of Coastal Studies in Provincetown, according to the Cape Cod Times, who spoke with Mullin, who described the finding as ‘exciting’.

Officials at the center went to investigate the incident after, when they found another dead shark nearby. Both of them were male.

The conservancy group said on Facebook the sharks were dissected and are now being further examined through organ and tissue samples.

 

 

The arctic blast that’s bringing negative temperatures to several other northern states is causing waterfalls to freeze, windows to crack and people to suffer life-threatening frostbite with just 30 minutes of exposure outside.

Forecasters are warning for those who are outside to bundle up with layers to protect against hypothermia and frostbite that could happen with exposure in the bitter arctic.

The icy cold weather has turned the Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota into a beautiful frozen wonderland. The popular attraction has completely frozen over due to the super cold single-digit temperatures that have gripped the state over the past few days.

The Minnehaha Creek flows from Lake Minnetonka, which is the biggest lake in the Twin Cities, to the Mississippi River. The falls are just a few miles from where the creek enters the Mississippi River.

The National Weather Service reported International Falls, Minnesota, the self-proclaimed Icebox of the Nation, plunged to 37 degrees below zero, breaking the old record of 32 below set in 1924.

Hibbing, Minnesota, bottomed out at 28 below, breaking the old record of 27 below set in 1964.

‘Bitterly cold arctic air will settle in across a large swath of the U.S. as we turn the calendar from 2017 to 2018,’ said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dan Pydynowski.